Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

Now that the study of consciousness is warmly embraced by cognitive scientists, much
confusion seems to arise between the concepts of visual attention and visual awareness …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

Change blindness is the striking failure to see large changes that normally would be noticed
easily. Over the past decade this phenomenon has greatly contributed to our understanding …

Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when
we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions …

Immersive computer-generated environments (aka virtual reality, VR) are limited by the
physical space around them, eg, enabling natural walking in VR is only possible by …

Normal people have a strikingly low ability to detect changes in a visual scene. This has
been taken as evidence that the brain represents only a few objects at a time, namely those …

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the
mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including …

Humans show a severe capacity limit in the number of objects they can store in visual short-
term memory (VSTM). We recently demonstrated with functional magnetic resonance …